Notre Dame Football and Victorian Sports

Do you think there was an equivalent to Notre Dame Football in Victorian times? I’ve never seen a sport-loving rake hell. That would be kind of amusing, actually. I don’t think they had a sports page in the London Times (must check this), but can you imagine this in your mind? A heroine wanting to go someplace romantic and the hero taking her to a sports match? I know that the Ascot was very popular, and horse racing might be their equivalent, but I wonder what other competitive sports they might have followed.

Maybe I could write a historical athletic hero, a la Susan Elizabeth Phillips, for my next book. Maybe a baseball player…hmm….the possibilities…:coffee:

I’ve been trucking along with my new manuscript, and I’m at that stage where I question–”Have I already written this? Did the heroine think this already? Are these emotions right, or am I totally fudging this?” Major brain cramp. The middle of a book is always challenging for me: a constant love/hate battle. I’ll reach a scene that is fun to write only for it to be followed by a drudgery scene :banghead:. Ah, the challenges of being a writer.